Instituto Nacional de ciberseguridad. Sección Incibe
Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad. Sección INCIBE-CERT

Go to Calendar     Go to Press Room     Go to Newsletters subscription

Search

CVE-2006-2906

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
08/06/2006
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

The LZW decoding in the gdImageCreateFromGifPtr function in the Thomas Boutell graphics draw (GD) library (aka libgd) 2.0.33 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via malformed GIF data that causes an infinite loop.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.40 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
5.40
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:thomas_boutell:graphics_draw_library:2.0.33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools